Ivo,
It looks like https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/12807 would implement
the suggestion to change open(command) to return just the process instead
of a tuple, so indexing into the return from open(`gzcat myzippedfile.gz`)
would no longer be necessary.
-Tony
On Saturday, February 27, 2016 at 8:14:41 PM UTC-8, ivo welch wrote:
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> apologies for bothering everyone again. is an easier solution planned for
> the following R-equivalent construct?
>
> d <- read.csv(pipe("gzcat mygzippedfile.gz"))
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>
> where gzcat could be an arbitrary alternative decompressor or input
> filter, or is this likely to remain difficult for starters?
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